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Feb 19, 2019 · More than two years later, a man named Robin “Rocky” Myers was convicted of Ludie Mae Tucker’s murder. At the time of Ludie Mae’s death, Rocky was living across the street from...
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Rocky Myers, a Black man, was convicted by a nearly all-white jury which sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole for the murder of his white neighbor. The trial judge overrode their decision and imposed a death sentence—a practice now outlawed in Alabama.
The case of Rocky Myers is a window into so much that’s wrong with the death penalty in this country. The 53-year-old, who has an intellectual disability, was saddled with an incompetent lawyer, convicted on the evidence from a key witness who has since recanted his testimony, and sentenced to death by a judge who imposed death sentence ...
May 1, 2023 · Rocky Myers has been on death row for nearly 30 years despite a jury that didn’t send him there, no physical evidence tying him to the crime, and a lawyer who abandoned him and ended his...
Dec 15, 2023 · Rocky Myers has been on death row in Alabama, USA, since 1994. 15 December 2023. When Rocky Myers – an Alabama man on death row whom I have represented for the past 16 years – found out that we’d lost yet another appeal, he told me he was done.
May 2, 2023 · Twelve jurors found Robin “Rocky” Myers guilty of killing neighbor Ludie Mae Tucker in 1991, despite the absence of any physical evidence, a murder weapon, bloodied clothing or hair...
Rocky Myers, a Black man with an intellectual disability, is under sentence of death for murder, despite no evidence directly linking him to the crime scene and the retracted statement of a key witness. The judge imposed a death sentence against the jury’s wishes.
Oct 10, 2023 · On the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty, Amnesty International Australia is asking supporters to petition the Governor of Alabama to commute Rocky Myers’ death sentence.
Rocky Myers was convicted by a nearly all-white jury who sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole for the murder of his white neighbour. The trial judge overrode their decision and imposed a death sentence – a practice now outlawed in Alabama.
In 2007, Kacey Keeton, a 49-year-old lawyer from Alabama, was assigned the case of Rocky Myers, a Black man who has spent nearly three decades on death row. In this wide-ranging Q&A, she details the multiple injustices he has faced, why the use of nitrogen hypoxia is hugely disturbing, and why she’s determined to fight for Rocky’s commutation.
